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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | 1019; 1022–23
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Bundelkhand — the forts of Gwalior and Kalinjar
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Ghaznavids — Chandelas (with the Kachchhapaghatas)
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Mahmud of Ghazni — Vidyadhara Chandela
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | Indecisive (1019); settlement with tribute (1022–23) — '''the fort never fell'''
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| style="padding:4px; border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1" | The coalition’s punishment of Rajyapala (Dubkund inscription)
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The '''Kalinjar campaign (1019–1023)''' set Mahmud against '''Vidyadhara''' — by contemporary reckoning the most powerful king in India, enforcer of the no-submission norm, and master of the one great fort of the plains Mahmud never took. ''This page is a placeholder of [[The Resistance Chronicle]] (Age I); its sections will be filled under the founder's direction, to the wing's rules: verdict, meaning for India, sources labelled.''

== Background — Mathura, Kannauj and the punishment of Rajyapala ==
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== The confrontation of 1019 — the host that decamped ==
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== The siege of 1022–23 — tribute and the poem ==
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== Verdict ==
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== What it meant for India ==
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== Sources — labelled ==
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[[Category:The Resistance Chronicle]]
[[Category:Military History]]
[[Category:Age of Regional Empires]]